Award-winning, bestselling author Zoe Whittall writing as Frankie Scott’s CHASING SUMMER, a witty and delicious second-chance summer romance for readers of Carley Fortune and Abby Jiménez, following a down-on-love screenwriter of Christmas romance movies who moves to an idyllic lakeside cottage for the summer, not expecting to fall for not one but two attractive suitors, and perhaps finding the kind of romance she’s so good at writing about, Janice Zawerbny at HarperCollins Canada, for publication May 2026, by Samantha Haywood at Transatlantic Agency. US rights also to Lynn Raposo at Mira/Harlequin.
Frankie Scott is the pseudonym for bestselling novelist and award-winning TV writer, Zoe Whittall. Her most recent novels are The Fake, The Spectacular, and The Best Kind of People, which was a finalist for the Giller prize and named Indigo’s #1 book of the year. She won a Lambda literary award for her second novel Holding Still for as Long as Possible. She has worked on The Baroness Von Sketch Show, Schitt’s Creek, Degrassi and other TV shows. She lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario.
Zoe is represented by Samantha Haywood.
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